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US Food Aid to Cameroon under Fire

By Harry McYemnti

Cameroon is a country with enormous natural resources and huge potential for agricultural production. Food production over the last forty years has barely kept pace with the population growth, ensuring basic food sufficiency. However, the country has been under the “Food for Progress” programme of the United States government. The aid consists of tons of rice and vegetable oil. According to the agreement, the aid which is destined to particular regions of the country, at given periods coinciding with regional production deficiency, is sold and the proceeds used to finance development projects within the region. The programme is now under fire from civil society groups.

‘Graduating Students Must Be Initiators of Self Employment,’ says Cameroon’s Minister of Public Works - Mr Messengue Awom Bernard

By Agnes E. Fonkeng

The National Advanced School of Public Works in Buea has graduated its 22nd batch of students. The graduation took place on Friday, March 16, 2007 at the school campus in the Southwest provincial headquarters. The professional school graduated 200 young engineers amidst cheers and jubilation from on-looking visitors, government officials, friends and family members.

HIPC funds trickle down to Women Empowerment Centres

By Chinibu Suzanne and Ivo Ngome

Where there is a will, there is a way! Cameroon on attaining the HIPC completion point embarked on a serious of poverty alleviating projects. Perhaps the political will to use gains from the HIPC initiative to ameliorate the living standards of Cameroonians, particularly those at the lowest economic level, is a way to reenergise national consciousness in combating poverty. An eloquent example of what HIPC funds can do have been demonstrated at the Women Empowerment Centre (WEC) Kumba, in the Southwest province of Cameroon, where women of the town and surrounding villages who have over the years fretted under the shadow of poverty and deprivation, now find voice and skills with the centre.

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ASAQ and Impregnated Mosquito Net Knock-off Malaria

By Mathias Victorien Ntep, Frankfurt, Germany

Malaria patients in Africa will henceforth heave a sigh of relief from this month onwards, as the foundation Drugs for Neglected Diseases in partnership with the fourth largest pharmaceutical corporation world-wide, SANOFI-AVENTIS, recently announced a breakthrough in research that has resulted in the engineering of the non-toxic, cheap and efficient drug against malaria. The new medicine is called “ASAQ”. ASAQ when complemented by Impregnated Mosquito Net, IMN provides a lethal weapon against malaria and its parasite.

Youths Drilled On Malaria Prevention Methods

By Agnes E. Fonkeng

A two-day capacity building workshop on malaria prevention organised by the Southwest Environmental Protection and Alleviation of Health Hazards (SOWEPAH) in partnership with the Tiko Nurse Association (TINA), held in the Cameroon Baptist Women’s Hall Mutengene. The meeting held from 15 - 16 March, 2007 under the theme ‘Let’s Stop Malaria before Malaria Stops Us’.

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Muea – Kumba Road to Catalyse Economic Activities in Southwest Cameroon

By Juliana Ndolo Mbua & Agnes Fonkeng

All roads led to the Liongo hamlet, three miles from Muea in the outskirts of Buea, where the people of the Southwest Province of Cameroon witnessed the laying of the foundation stone for the construction of a modern highway from Muea to Kumba. It was an unusual yet innovative dawn on Thursday, March 15, 2007, with thousands of visitors and stakeholders swabbing away the tears and horrors of the Muea – Kumba voyage for a cheerful embrace of a modern road that would plonk into archives of history the nightmare of business proprietors and their legendary tussle to transport goods on the current winding and wriggling dusty track.

Cameroon Attempts to Energize Cocoa and Coffee Farmers

By Juliana Ndolo Mbua and Yvonne Soppo Disso

Cameroon’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Jean Nkouete has ended a two-day working visit to the South West Province with a pledge to speed up the application of measures taken to revive the cocoa and coffee sectors in the Southwest and Littoral Provinces of Cameroon. While in the Southwest Province, Minister Jean Nkouete distributed some farm tools to some common initiative groups and also held talks with the management staff of the Cameroon Development Corporation, CDC. The farmers were assured that measures are underway by the government of Cameroon to step up the production of cocoa and coffee in the country. The Minister of State, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Jean Nkuete was speaking in Limbe on Thursday, March 22, 2007 as he presided over a stakeholders’ exchange forum seeking to re-launch cocoa and coffee in the Southwest and Littoral production basins. Minister Nkuete further said the creation of new plantations and the revival of old ones as well will also be provided to support young farmers.  Phyto-sanitary products will be provide to these farmers as he reiterated.